Ron Paul Calls Out Neocon Meddling in Ukraine

Retired Congressman Ron Paul has been a consistent critic of the neocon domination of US foreign policy that with the western backed overthrow of the democratically elected leader of Ukraine that come roaring back into vogue. Never underestimate the neocons, they were thought to have been permanently discredited and for all intents and purposes dead and buried after the Iraq fiasco but they are back with a vengeance - you can say that they never truly went away. Like the cockroach, the neoconservative seems to be virtually indestructible primarily because unlike the permanently tainted American political system and its two contemptibly corrupt parties it has an underlying ideology, much like Communism or Nazism, both of which are borrowed from to form neocon dogma. With the now mortally wounded lame duck Barack Obama about to have inflicted upon him and America yet another brutal geopolitical embarrassment with the western backed, neocon orchestrated coup d'etat against President Viktor Yanukovych having disintegrated into a fiasco as Crimea is today holding a referendum on breaking away from the illicit central puppet government to return to Russia. Despite all of the threats and posturing by a truly feckless Obama and his moronic Secretary of State John Kerry the vote is going down now and the Washington elitist establishment is squealing like stuck pigs.

I have not had the chance to review the Sunday morning propaganda shows yet - just looking at the published list of the degenerate fascist shills for the neocon permanent state of war abroad and oppression at home had me queasy but will have to dutifully review the cacophony of the keening chickenhawks sooner or later. All four major TV networks and the cable outlets as well are trotting out the big guns this morning for the initial barrage of bullshit upon which the coming weeks warmongering talking points will spring from. There will be the whore chasing Democrat from New Jersey Robert Menendez, the deranged Texas Congressman Michael McCaul who is already exploiting the mysterious disappearance of that Malaysian jetliner as "terrorism" which will be used by the Heimat Security boss as an excuse to further gut the constitution and more. There will be the lunatic from Long Island, Congressman and anti-Muslim bigot Peter King, a supporter of the terrorist wing of the Irish Republican Army whom ABC's "This Week" will be lucky if he isn't already half drunk for St. Patrick's Day as well as the pride of Michigan's 8th Congressional District and living proof of the 'tyranny of the minority" Mike Rogers and even John McCain, perhaps live from Kiev where he is palling around with neo-Nazis again. It is a veritable All Star Team of fascists, swine and scum and to top it all off none other than arch-neocon William Kristol who just landed a gig there despite the blatant conflict of interest, he is the Joseph Goebbels of the neoconservative fifth column in America.

But I digress.

Ron Paul has always been right about the dangers of the neocons and their proud proclamations of world dominance enforced by the US military. In a piece from The Guardian that featured both Ron and his son, Senator Rand Paul the venerable former public servant once again called it as it is in that sanctions against Russia are an "act of war" and that:  “The evidence is pretty clear that the NGOs [non-governmental organisations] financed by our government have been agitating with billions of dollars, trying to get that government changed”  and “Our hands are not clean.” Indeed not clean is an understatement, soaked in the blood of innocents is more like it and when you have a high ranking member of the US State Department like Victoria "Fuck the EU" Nuland being caught on a telephone call in the act of picking winners of the overthrow of an elected leader it is pretty obvious that the Ukraine operation comes with the highest degree of official sanctioning. Nuland is a Bush regime holdover and a former aide to Dick Cheney as well as being married to Project For the New American Century (PNAC) co-founder Robert Kagan so her motivations should be questioned - especially with her handing out of fucking cookies to anti-government demonstrators.

Back in 2003 when the Bush-Cheney-Rove Axis of Evil and their winged monkey squadrons were using the big ass club of 9/11 with which to pummel critics of the American war machine and the looming catastrophe of the Shock and Awe attack on Iraq "unpatriotic" and "terrorist appeaser" Ron Paul had the stones to call them out for what they were. In an astonishing floor speech in the House of Representatives he blasted the neocons as exactly what they were. The link to his famous "Neoconned" denouncement is here and the really good stuff starts at around the 11 minute mark, the transcript is posted here, a brief sample of which I excerpt below:

There is abundant evidence exposing those who drive our foreign policy justifying preemptive war. Those who scheme are proud of the achievements in usurping control over foreign policy. These are the neoconservatives of recent fame. Granted, they are talented and achieved a political victory that all policymakers must admire. But can freedom and the Republic survive this takeover? That question should concern us.

Neoconservatives are obviously in positions of influence and are well-placed throughout our government and the media. An apathetic Congress put up little resistance and abdicated its responsibilities over foreign affairs. The electorate was easily influenced to join in the patriotic fervor supporting the military adventurism advocated by the neoconservatives.

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At the end of the Cold War, the neoconservatives realized a rearrangement of the world was occurring and that our superior economic and military power offered them a perfect opportunity to control the process of remaking the Middle East.

 It was recognized that a new era was upon us, and the neocons welcomed Frances Fukuyama's “end of history” declaration. To them, the debate was over. The West won; the Soviets lost. Old-fashioned communism was dead. Long live the new era of neoconservatism. The struggle may not be over, but the West won the intellectual fight, they reasoned. The only problem is that the neocons decided to define the philosophy of the victors. They have been amazingly successful in their efforts to control the debate over what Western values are and by what methods they will be spread throughout the world.

There is much more including the naming of names, many of which are involved in the current push for waging war against Putin and Russia including William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Dick Cheney and others Paul also pointed out the role of Rupert Murdoch in promoting the state of permanent war after September 11, 2001:

The money and views of Rupert Murdock also played a key role in promoting the neocon views, as well as rallying support by the general population, through his News Corporation, which owns Fox News Network, the New York Post and Weekly Standard. This powerful and influential media empire did more to galvanize public support for the Iraqi invasion than one might imagine. This facilitated the Rumsfeld/Cheney policy as their plans to attack Iraq came to fruition. It would have been difficult for the neocons to usurp foreign policy from the restraints of Colin Powell's State Department without the successful agitation of the Rupert Murdock empire. Max Boot was satisfied, as he explained: “Neoconservatives believe in using American might to promote American ideals abroad.” This attitude is a far cry from the advice of the Founders, who advocated no entangling alliances and neutrality as the proper goal of American foreign policy.

Again Murdoch and his media empire are playing a critical role only now they are joined by a united and coordinated array of every so-called mainstream 'news' outlet as the drumbeat for the rebooting of the Cold War reaches a level that is deafening. Ron Paul had a serious set of cajones in speaking this in 2003, this speech among many other things had him permanently placed on the unofficial enemies list of the neocons. It is shameful that there are none there to take his place in denouncing this very anti-American ideology and those who adhere to it in a similar manner as the doomsday clock continues to tick.

Hillary Surfaces and Compares Putin to Hitler

With the restoration of the corrupt Clinton family dynasty looming the likely successor to Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham-Clinton has played the obligatory Nazi card in joining in on the Putin pile on.  Mrss Clinton made her remarks comparing Russian leader Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler during a private appearance in California, taken along with similar off the cuff statements in non-public settings by SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia (internment camps) and former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (screw half of the country) it is a window into the very deranged mindset of the American elite. The invocation of the long dead fanatical Nazi dictator is a winner whenever it is time for the rogue American war machine to crank up for another illegal intervention into the affairs of another country. It is always a must to ensure that the leader of an enemy country be thoroughly demonized so more meddling in foreign lands can be sold to the star-spangled lemming flock who are slowly being beggared by the money directed at world domination by the government agents of a rapacious, degenerate looter class - this case being the global financial mafia that Clinton serves and will continue to serve as she takes up residence in the White House come January 2017.

The neocons truly cherish the WW II references, especially those invoking Der Führer or the sainted Sir Winston when making their case for the ongoing series of blatant acts of raw aggression and subversion of democratically elected governments that have become as American as apple pie over the last sixty or so years but why not Stalin? It is really not arguable that Russian tyrant Joseph Stalin was responsible for more dead bodies than Hitler ever was but with a deep seated aversion to real history thanks to willful ignorance, the effects of incessant propaganda, the state indoctrination of an America centric glorified revisionist history and the ongoing dumbing down process it would be a tough sell. I would imagine that the majority of Americans have absolutely no idea who Stalin was but thanks to the neocons and their media lie factories everyone understands Hitler - actually some dumbass had a letter published in yesterdays edition of my local paper entitled "Adolph Putin".  Still it is a cheap political gimmick to constantly play the Nazi card and far more than a bit hypocritical considering that the U.S. backed putsch in Ukraine has relied on neo-Nazi militias to back the hostile takeover in Kiev.

Conveniently absent from any of the American establishment media's ongoing shock and awe carpet bombing of raw propaganda demonizing Putin and lying about the nature of what happened in Ukraine has been any mention at all of the fascists, extreme right-wing nationalists and neo-Nazis that were essential to the ouster of the elected president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych . That is until Wednesday when the truth that was managing to seep out thanks largely to the internet and alternative media and the Ukranian neo-Nazis were finally acknowledged - in a smear piece by none other than Fox News where it was dismissed as Putin propaganda. It is highly likely that given the revelations on NSA mass surveillance provided by former government contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden that those who converse in such things are being monitored along with supporters of the BDS Movement which the ever more out of touch Israeli despot Bibi Netanyahyu invoked 18 times in his stemwinder at Tuesday's AIPAC 'do you have sufficient loyalty to Israel' litmus test soiree.  The pickup list for when the shit hits the fan will continue to grow as more and more people begin to wise up to the big con that has been played on them by criminals in high places.

Clinton's belated entry into the game comes at a crucial time and is likely a harbinger of her official announcement of the bid for the 2016 Democratic party nomination. She will then roll largely unopposed to the highest office in the land as the Republican party has continued to self-immolate by pandering to the ideological domestic counterparts of Ukraine's Svoboda and Right Sector who with their relentless defense of taking over the powers of the state to enforce a bigoted and insane religious doctrine upon America have rendered them incapable of winning a national election. She is after all the chosen one by the global elite financial syndicate that controls both U.S. political parties but has particularly become entrenched with the Democrats. In an interesting excerpt from Rolling Stone magazine, in a Matt Taibbi piece on the ongoing commodities racketeering by Goldman Sachs and others an old Clinton friend resurfaces. From "The Vampire Squid Strikes Again":

The sudden turning on of this huge faucet of free money seems to have been a factor in an ensuing commodities shopping spree undertaken by all three firms. Morgan Stanley, for instance, claimed to have just $2.5 billion in commodity assets in March 2009. By September 2011, those holdings had nearly quadrupled, to $10.3 billion.

Goldman and Chase – along with Glencore and Trafigura, a pair of giant Swiss-based conglomerates that were offshoots of a firm founded by notorious deceased commodities trader and known market manipulator Marc Rich – all made notably coincidental purchases of metals-warehousing companies in 2010.

The presence of these Marc Rich entities is particularly noteworthy. According to famed Forbes reporter Paul Klebnikov, who was assassinated in 2004 after years of reports on Russian corruption, Rich made a fortune in the early Nineties striking crooked deals with the Soviet bosses who controlled the U.S.S.R.'s supplies of raw materials – in particular commodities like zinc and aluminum. These deals helped create a fledgling class of profiteers among the bosses of the crumbling Soviet empire, a class that would go on years later to help push Russia out of its communist past into its kleptocratic present.

"He'd strike a deal with the local party boss, or the director of a state-owned company," Klebnikov said back in 2001. "He'd say, 'OK, you will sell me the [commodity] at five to 10 percent of the world-market price . . . and in return, I will deposit some of the profit I make by reselling it 10 times higher on the world market, and put the kickback in a Swiss bank account.'"

Rich made these reported deals while in exile from the United States, which he fled in 1983 after the U.S. government charged him with tax evasion, wire fraud, racketeering and trading with the enemy after being caught trading with rogue states like Iran, among other things. The state filed enough counts to put him away for life, and he remained a fugitive until January 2001, when a little-known Clinton administration Justice Department official named Eric Holder recommended Rich be pardoned. A report by the House Committee on Government Reform later concluded that Holder had not provided a credible explanation for supporting Rich's pardon and that he must have had "other motivations" that he didn't share with Congress. Among other things, the committee speculated that Holder had designs on the attorney general's office in a potential Al Gore administration.

In any case, in 2010, a decade after the Rich pardon, Holder was attorney general, but under Barack Obama, and two Rich-created firms, along with two banks that have been major donors to the Democratic Party, all made moves to buy up metals warehouses. In near simultaneous fashion, Goldman, Chase, Glencore and Trafigura bought companies that control warehouses all over the world for the LME, or London Metals Exchange. The LME is a privately owned exchange for world metals trading. It's the world's primary hub for determining metals prices and also for trading metals-based futures, options, swaps and other instruments.

Clinton family intimate Marc Rich? With that being Taibbi's last piece for Rolling Stone as he is moving on to First Look Media to work along with real journalists Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Jeremy Scahill, Marcy Wheeler and others who will push the envelope in challenging the rogue American government I can hardly wait for the followup. Mr. Rich along with others looted the former Soviet Union after the collapse and the actions ongoing in Ukraine with the full support of the U.S. government to apply the economic austerity shock doctrine so that the pigs can feast must have his ghost beaming with approval.